Now that school isn’t throwing a slew of books for me to read (wait until next month. YIKES!), I have time to go and read some of the literature I wish to read – namely The Chronicles of Narnia.
Hey, I jumped on the Narnia bandwagon just like every other person in the world jumped onto the Lord of the Rings bandwagon a few years back. There wouldn’t be one day where I wouldn’t see someone reading LOTR on the bus somewhere.
Actually, speaking about coincidence, last week I saw a guy reading Narnia at the same time I was AND I peeked over and noticed he was only a few chapters ahead of me! Strange!
Even stranger was the fact that this morning I started reading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and sitting across from me was a gentleman reading the same novel! These coincidences are strange but they mean something. Never think coincidence is just coincidence folks!
Anyhow, back to the novel. Chronicles of Narnia assemble the 7 books in the series which all revolve around the mystical world we know as Narnia. Aslan (the lion) comes in and out of the novels helping as he may and there’s villains showing up in each novel…whether it be the White Witch in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe or the Calormene in The Horse and His Boy. Only The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian revolve around the same human characters, hence most likely the reason that Disney has decided that the next Narnia film will be Prince Caspian.
What can I say about the novel? I enjoyed it. They were simple stories with deeper messages within them (ah…what novel doesn’t have that?) but it was interesting to see how a world with talking animals works. I enjoyed the fantastical element of it all and it was refreshing compared to other fantasy worlds such as Middle Earth since it is a more peaceful and happy place.
I recommend The Chronicles of Narnia to anyone who enjoys a light read and is into fantasy. I suppose I’ll now have to go catch the film version of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe! I hope it is just as good as the book!
Here’s a message to my friend Duncan who enjoys these types of films…go read the book! Read a chapter a night. Or 1/2 a chapter a night! The books are always better than the film!
7 replies on “Review: The Chronicles of Narnia”
I don’t know Ryan about the books always being better than the films. I read the book a long time ago mind you, but seeing the film was great. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.
I agree with Ryan, books are always better than the film.
Sheer logic HAS to work in this case.
The original is ALWAYS better than the imitation.
Granted…I just realized there are a SLEW of things this doesn’t pertain to (like technology!) so my theory has just been debunked.
I would trust a technology book, before I would trust a film about technology.
I Agree the book should always be read first before the movie!
The LOTR movies were good, but they still left a bunch of stuff out from the books!
The Dune movies!
Tom Clancy’s hunt for the Red October was changed the book! I can go on forever on this path!
fine
But with the LOTR books to movies, while there was a lot of stuff taken out, there was some stuff that should just never have been in the books if he would have just accepted an editor!